While the files were in London, one writer noted: “Drawings are ideally viewed in this way through the process of locating, removing and handling individual pieces qualities of spontaneity, experimentation and intuition are enhanced… A more convincing representation of New York art than a dozen issues of Artforum.” (Mark Currah, Time Out London) For most of the traveling Flat File exhibitions local artists have been contacted prior to the exhibition in order to include their work. Pierogi’s traveling Flat Files have been on view in London, Manchester, Vienna, and at numerous institutions across the US. Additional sets of traveling Flat Files are often on the road, and when not traveling are viewable at Pierogi. A selection of works by each artist are viewable online, and we generally have more works by each artist in the physical files which are always on view at Pierogi in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009 Pierogi launched a (no-white-gloves-required!) online version of our Flat Files, searchable by artist, media, or basic stylistic tags. Since that time curators, collectors, critics, art dealers, and the general public have donned white gloves to view work in the files, which have grown to include the work of over 700 artists, and which have been widely imitated. The first files were exhibited at Four Walls in Brooklyn and consisted of 20 artist portfolios. The files themselves are chests of flat drawers holding portfolios of artworks, including all types of media, from painting, drawing, and collage on paper, to photography… anything more or less flat that can fit in the drawers. The Pierogi Flat Files began in 1995 with the idea of making original artwork available to a larger audience.
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